California votes down proposition 6, which would end slave labor in prisons
California votes down proposition 6, which would end slave labor in prisons
Proposition 6 would end forced labor in state prisons.
I thought fascism was a Republican thing 🤯
Its been 3 years of a casual stroll and a year of genocide and a mad dash to the right.
The Duopoly is fascist and they have hordes who will dutifully do whatever their masters tell them to.
Alabama got rid of slavery in 2022.
WTF CA?
This is factual, I double checked because I found it surprising.
Buuuuuuuuuuuut....How would they fight wildfires?
Won't anyone think about the wildfires?
/s (To be clear)
Alabama still very much has slavery / a few slave labor camps running. Not as many as California tho.
California would literally burn without slave labor.
Lol what? Do you have worms in your brain?
One of their prison labor programs is for fighting wildfires.
He's referencing the slaves used as firefighters while enslaved that are denied employment fighting fires if they survive and are released.
You know, that insanely fucked up practice of endangering incarcerated persons in the most dangerous job possible simply to save money since they're compensated less than $0.25/hour.
How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up For Labor
https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/
Huh, I wonder what led to this failing? The source doesn't elaborate.
Probably related to this
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-state-ballot-measure-results
Ah, yes. Hurting the homeless. Of course. Silly me.
Prisoners’ rights are deeply unpopular in America because the vast majority of Americans still believe in the “justice” system making the right choices. Most of the people I campaigned to told me “if you don’t wanna do forced labor, just don’t commit crime”.
“if you don’t wanna do forced labor, just don’t commit crime”.
a poor education and ignorance (willful or other) are a key factor to why they have that sentiment.
an educated and informed person would realize that "punishment" does not benefit society. they would see how other countries approach the topic and realize that treatment and support are what criminals need ( not all of them obviously ). an informed populace would also look internally and realize prison-enforced slavery incentivizes increased incarceration of petty crimes, which only pushes people into more crime, not to mention private prisons and the 13th amendment make for an evil combination.
to quote SOAD:
All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Pfft, America has a Center-Right part and an Extreme-Right party. Just because Republicans call Dems "the left" doesn't make them leftists.
I am sure they are very concerned about slavery in China though
People are really getting sick of things like side shows, smash and grab robberies, car breakins. Small businesses are closing because of this. The Alameda County DA doesn’t want to prosecute offenders, victims feel they are not being represented. So given all that, it doesn’t surprise me at all that voters aren’t eager to do any favors for convicted criminals.
You know what the most ghoulish shit is about libs? Y'all stopped pretending cruel and unusual punishment was only for rapes and murders and now stealing a sandwich is enough to get you to pay with your life's time for a few years.
Maybe demand all the media, agriculture and tech billionaires y'all have to stop wage theft, antitrust practices, rent/food gouging and outright contracting prison slaves and you wouldnt have so many homeless people that still have to eat and inner city youth desperate to make a dollar any way they can to escape their police-occupied communities.
There’s a reason your position lost so badly in the polls: it’s divorced from reality. Painting every criminal as a poor hungry oppressed person just isn’t true. All the stores around me have closed because they were being repeatedly robbed by organized gangs. Anything I leave outside gets destroyed and I have to spend weeks cleaning up after sideshows pass through my neighborhood. The people doing that have plenty of money for fancy cars and expensive fireworks. They aren’t starving, they’re just shitty people who get off on making other people miserable.
Also, nobody in my neighborhood is hungry, I work with the county food bank to make sure of that. It’s hard work but it’s the least I can do.
Yes, slavery is wrong. However I gave up on expecting subtlety from the average voter many moons ago, and right now the population is desperate to express that just bending over and taking it from shithead gangsters is destroying low-income neighborhoods. They are tired of being lied to by people like you living in a nice rich neighborhood and imagining noble hungry people that were never the problem in the first place.
Banning slavery is not 'Doing a favor'.
Anytime someone says "small business" I know they're full of shit. Define "small business" it's just like saying "middle class" fuck off.